Comte de Béarn

Overview

A French nobleman, seen in the Gavini circle from February 1880. On 29 May 1880 the diary says: "Mlle Walery se marie avec le comte de Béarn." (Mlle Walery is marrying the Count de Béarn.) The specific individual cannot be identified from the diary context alone.

The comte de Béarn is a regular of the Gavinis' salon and of the Opera boxes in Marie's Paris years: he leaves first from the Gavinis' on 8 February 1880 (087.0436, Mon Journal t.13 index «Bearn (comte de) : 263»); on 7–8 June 1882 «le comte et la comtesse de Béarn» are of the Opera party and the Gavinis' evening (095.0137, 095.0139; t.15 index «Béarn (comte de) : 21», «(comtesse de) : 21, 24»). If the comtesse is the former Mlle Waléry, she would be the daughter of Marie's photographer Waléry; the diary does not say so.

Identity uncertain

We are not sure who this count was. The diary says only that he marries «Mlle Waléry» in the spring of 1880 (088.0415, 29 May 1880). A web search found no source for the marriage or for a daughter of the photographer Waléry (Stanisław Julian Ostroróg). If you can identify him, we would be glad to hear from you.

References in Diary

• 1880-02-08 (087.0436); 1880-05-29 (088.0415: fiancé of Mlle Waléry); 1882-06-07 and 06-08 (095.0137, 095.0139); 1882-06-10 (095.0160: «la petite comtesse de Béarn très sympathique et gentille» at Mme de Janzé's).